Flicking on the Switch a discrepant Event Grade 6 Science Cluster 3

Grade 6 Science Cluster 3

Created by: Kimberley Corneillie

Flicking on the Switch

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Many believed that such electrical currents would bring the dead back to life. This is why Mary Shellye’s famous story of Frankenstein, is brought to life by a massive electric shock from a bolt of lightening…

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But people can’t be brought back to life this way so lets continue about why the frog’s legs twitched without a charge

Alessandro Volta discovered that the electricity came from the chemical reaction between the metal and the metal hook on which the legs hung. Knowing this, Volta made the first battery in 1800…

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What is a current?

Imagine a row of marbles and you flick one hard, and the marble at the far end of the table shoots off. In any material that conducts electricity well, the marbles, properly called, electrons, move and hit the next one in line passing the electric current through the circuit creating electricity.